Rachel Weisz pregnant @ 48

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Anonymous wrote:Probably, but why don't you ask her? I'm sure she's itching to tell everyone how her baby was made, and just hasn't said anything because no one has asked.

It's either a donor egg or it isn't. At her age, it most likely is. What does confirmation one way or the other matter?

personally I am curious. I am pregnant naturally at 45 which is obviously different from 48 but even at 48 pregnancies do happen.

How can I make it happen at 48?? Tell me!

learn when you ovulate (if you can) and have sex one day before that. it might happen or not (which is true at any age).

Thank you. I think I will have to buy a air ticket to where DH will be working at that time.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom had me at 46, my older sister just went through menopause at 60. These things happen.

they do happen but its less than 2% for an actual birth at that age.

maybe. nobody actually knows these probabilities (they are impossible to calculate because we don't know how many people are trying, how many are using contraception etc). i don't know why people are throwing these statistics around.

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People ar quick to quote numbers based on a population of women who have compromised fertility- women who don't have trouble having children don't visit fertility clinics. They are the population left out of most of these statistics.

NO, these fertility stats are based on studies of random women. The researchers prospectively followed a cohort of random women who are trying to conceive. Not infertile women.
Pls know what you're talking about before you post.

this is not true. i actually read a lot about this. the biggest studies follow groups of women you are trying to conceive, not "random women". there are also studies of births records from 18, 19th centuries.

I seem to recall one of the more reliable studies followed a group of Amish/Mennonite (?) women because those ladies try to procreate until they cannot and it was a big enough cohort to get meaningful data.

in order to get adequate estimate of women aged, say, 48 who are trying to get pregnant you will need about a 1000 such women. since no more than 1% of women that age are TTC you would need to recruit like a 100k 48-aged women. that's very difficult and expensive and hasn't been done.

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Anonymous wrote:Do these people think they'll live to see grandchildren?

My mother had me at 21 (married at 19) and didn't live to see my children. What is your point?

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate when celebrities are honest about their fertility circumstances, but it really isn’t any of our business.

I actually would not be surprised if this were a natural pregnancy. Do you really think she would have tried for 8 years with treatments...or put off trying, if they wanted kids together?

How do you know they didn't try naturally for the past 8 years and then turned to donor eggs? I have a friend who did this--got married at 40, tried naturally from age 40 to 44, including several "natural cycle" IVF cycles. Started the donor egg process at 45 and finally conceived at 46ish.

The thing is, you just don't know what happened.

Maybe she never thought she wanted another kid and then recently held a newborn and thought, "wow, I really want another kid" and decided to go for it and went straight to donor egg.
Who knows.

I work in a fertility clinic. It makes me a bit squeamish when people recount all the tales of "natural pregnancies at age 48 or 49. Sure, these conceptions happen but they're exceedingly rare. The vast majority of women will have difficulty conceiving at any time past the very early 40s. Many will see a marked decline in
fertility past age 39 or 40. Many will never have success in conceiving a baby. We see SO many women who have no idea that they won't be able to conceive at 41 or 42 or 43 (let alone 45+). They believe that fertility will last until 45+ because this is increasingly how it's portrayed in the media. However, it just doesn't.
And there are thousands upon thousands of donor egg cycles done in the US each year. A large number in places like NYC and California. Most (not all) of these pregnancies are never revealed as donor egg to anyone. We see a ton of women who don't even tell their mothers or sisters. It's a insanely secretive process. Anyway, you
just never know. Celebrities aren't miraculously super fertile. What they have going for them is money and ability to seek care.

people you seen in a fertility clinic are those struggling to conceive. what you are not seeing are all the older women who conceive naturally (many of them abort). your perspective is skewed... not saying it is easy or probably that one can get pregnant at 45 but it is definitely more common than fertility industry portrays it to be.

Yes, I think you would have different LOG if you worked at an abortion clinic. You might think women only get pregnant when they are in their teens or 40+.